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Thank-You For Performing A TYPOGRAPHIC REPRESENTATION FOR A PERFORMANCE CREATED BY A PUBLIC AUDIENCE.
Introduction Reflecting on the performance through this typographic representation, demonstrates my approach towards a brief as a conceptual designer. The performance has been presented as a short film piece, which displays selected shots compiled and developed over a period of time. The end result, a selection of people. Some participate, some spectate and others walk by, completely unaware. This book introduces John Cage as a core focus, introducing his work and understanding where influences can be taken from. The book progresses through relevant influences, experiments and analysis, defining and highlighting points of interest through this experimental project. With typography, I have created a depiction of what has been an exciting and self inspiring project.
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John Cage Research & Development Labanotation Tim Crouch Response Experiments Movement/performers Setting up Reflection Analysis
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The protagonist AN AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL STATEMENT.
The text that follows is the words of John Cage taken from his autobiographical statement (1990). It starts from early stages and progresses through his life and career.
I have found it interesting and useful to read Cage’s words about his life. I have been able to create a starting point for the project, allowing me to understand his work in a more personal manner.
My father was an inventor. He was able to find solutions for problems of various kinds, in the fields of electrical engineering, medicine, submarine travel, seeing through fog, and travel in space without the use of fuel. He told me that if someone says “can’t” that shows you what to do. He also told me that my mother was always right even when she was wrong. My mother had a sense of society. She was the founder of the Lincoln Study Club, first in Detroit, then in Los Angeles. She became the Women’s Club editor for the Los Angeles Times. She was never happy. When after Dad’s death I said, “Why don’t you visit the family in Los Angeles? You’ll have a good time,” she replied, “Now, John, you know perfectly well I’ve never enjoyed having a good time.” When we would go for a Sunday drive, she’d always regret that we hadn’t brought so‑and‑so with us. Sometimes she would leave the house and say she was never coming back. Dad was patient, and always calmed my alarm by saying, “Don’t worry, she’ll be back in a little while.” Neither of my parents went to college. When I did, I dropped out after two years. Thinking I was going to be a writer, I told Mother and Dad I should travel to Europe and have experiences rather than continue in school. I was shocked at college to see one hundred of my classmates in the library all reading copies of the same book. Instead of doing as they did, I went into the stacks and read the first book written by an author whose name began with Z. I received the highest grade in the class. That convinced me that the institution was not being run correctly.
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Cage started his creative turn in college where he studied art.
When I went to Europe, after being kicked in the seat of my pants by José Pijoan for my study of flamboyant Gothic architecture and introduced by him to a modern architect who set me to work drawing Greek capitals, Doric, Ionic, and Corinthian, I became interested in modern music and modern painting. One day I overheard the architect saying to some girl friends, “In order to be an architect, one must devote one’s life to architecture.” I then went to him and said I was leaving because I was interested in other things than architecture. Enthusiastic about America I wrote to Mother and Dad saying, “I am coming home.” Mother wrote back, “Don’t be a fool. Stay in Europe as long as possible. Soak up as much beauty as you can. You’ll probably never get there again.” I left Paris and began both painting and writing music, first in Mallorca. The music I wrote was composed in some mathematical way I no longer recall. It didn’t seem like music to me so that when I left Mallorca I left it behind to lighten the weight of my baggage. In Sevilla I noticed the multiplicity of simultaneous visual and audible events all going together in one’s experience and producing enjoyment. It was the beginning for me of theatre and circus. Later when I returned to California, in the Pacific Palisades, I wrote songs with texts by Gertrude Stein and choruses from The Persians of Aeschylus. I had studied Greek in high school. These compositions were improvised at the piano. The Stein songs are, so to speak, transcriptions from a repetitive language to a repetitive music. I met Richard Buhlig who was the first pianist to play the Opus II of Schoenberg. Though he was not a teacher of composition, he agreed to take charge of my writing of music. From him I went to Henry Cowell and at Cowell’s suggestion (based on my twenty‑five tone compositions, which, though not serial, were chromatic and required the expression in a single voice of all twenty‑five tones before any one of them
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Cage could not accept the academic idea that the purpose of music was communication, because he noticed that when he conscientiously wrote something sad, people and critics were often apt to laugh. ] was repeated) to Adolph Weiss in preparation for studies with
Arnold Schoenberg. When I asked Schoenberg to teach me, he said, “You probably can’t afford my price.” I said, “Don’t mention it; I don’t have any money.” He said, “Will you devote your life to music?” This time I said, “Yes.” He said he would teach me free of charge. I gave up painting and concentrated on music. After two years it became clear to both of us that I had no feeling for harmony. For Schoenberg, harmony was not just coloristic: it was structural. It was the means one used to distinguish one part of a composition from another. Therefore he said I’d never be able to write music. “Why not?” “You’ll come to a wall and won’t be able to get through.” “Then I’ll spend my life knocking my head against that wall.” I became an assistant to Oskar Fischinger, the filmmaker, to prepare myself to write the music for one of his films being made. He happened to say one day, “Everything in the world has its own spirit which can be released by setting it into vibration.” I began hitting, rubbing everything, listening, and then writing percussion music, and playing it. These compositions were made up of short motives expressed either as sound or as silence of the same length, motives that were arranged on the perimeter of a circle on which one could proceed forward or backward. I wrote without specifying the instruments, using our rehearsals to try out found or rented instruments. I didn’t rent many because I had little money. I did library research work for my father or for lawyers. I was married to Xenia Andreyevna Kashevaroff who was studying bookbinding with Hazel Dreis. Since we all lived in a bighouse my percussion music was played in the evening by the bookbinders. I invited Schoenberg to one of our performances. “I am not free.” “Can you come a week later?” “No, I am not free at any time.” I found dancers, modern dancers, however, who were interested in my music and could put it to use. I was given
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a job at the Cornish School in Seattle. It was there that I discovered what I called micro‑macrocosmic rhythmic structure. The large parts of a composition had the same proportion as the phrases of a single unit. Thus an entire piece had that number of measures that had a square root. This rhythmic structure could be expressed with any sounds, including noises, or it could be expressed not as sound and silence but as stillness and movement in dance. It was my response to Schoenberg’s structural harmony. It was also at the Cornish School that I became aware of Zen Buddhism, which later, as part of oriental philosophy, took the place for me of psychoanalysis. I was disturbed both in my private life and in my public life as a composer. I could not accept the academic idea that the purpose of music was communication, because I noticed that when I conscientiously wrote something sad, people and critics were often apt to laugh. I determined to give up composition unless I could find a better reason for doing it than communication. I found this answer from Gira Sarabhai, an Indian singer and tabla player: The purpose of music is to sober and quiet the mind, thus making it susceptible to divine influences. I also found in the writings of Ananda K. Coomaraswammy that the responsibility of the artist is to imitate nature in her manner of operation. I became less disturbed and went back to work. Before I left the Cornish School I made the prepared piano. I needed percussion instruments for music for a dance that had an African character by Syvilla Fort. But the theatre in which she was to dance had no wings and there was no pit. There was only a small grand piano built in to the front and left of the audience. At the time I either wrote twelve‑tone music for piano or I wrote percussion music. There was no room for the instruments. I couldn’t find an African twelve tone row. It was also at the Cornish School, in a radio station
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there, that I made compositions using acoustic sounds mixed with amplified sounds and recordings of sine waves. I began a series, Imaginary Landscapes. I spent two years trying to establish a Centre for Experimental Music, in a college or university or with corporate sponsorship. I found interest in my work I found no one willing to support it financially. I joined the faculty of Moholy Nagy’s School of Design in Chicago. While there I was commissioned to write a sound effects music for a CBS Columbia Workshop Play. I was told by the sound effects engineer that anything I could imagine was possible. What I wrote, however, was impractical and too expensive; the work had to be rewritten for percussion orchestra, copied, and rehearsed in the few remaining days and nights before its broadcast. That was The City Wears a Slouch Hat by Kenneth Patchen. The response was enthusiastic in the West and Middle West. Xenia and I came to New York, but the response in the East had been less than enthusiastic. We had met Max Ernst in Chicago. We were staying with him and Peggy Guggenheim. We were penniless. No job was given to me for my composing of radio sound effects, which I had proposed. I began writing again for modern dancers and doing library research work for my father who was then with Mother in New Jersey. About this time I met my first virtuosi: Robert Fizdale and Arthur Gold. I wrote two large works for two prepared pianos. The criticism by Virgil Thomson was very favourable, both for their performance and for my composition. But there were only fifty people in the audience. I lost a great deal of money that I didn’t have. I was obliged to beg for it, by letter and personally. I continued each year, however, to organize and present one or two programs of chamber music and one or two programs of Merce Cunningham’s choreography and dancing. And to make tours with him throughout the United States. And later with David Tudor, the pianist, to Europe.
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Tudor is now a composer and performer of electronic music. For many years he and I were the two musicians for Merce Cunningham. And then for many more we had the help of David Behrman, Gordon Mumma, or Takehisa Kosugi. I have in recent years, in order to carry out other projects (an opera in Frankfurt and the Norton Lectures at Harvard University), left the Cunningham Company. Its musicians now are Tudor, Kosugi, and Michael Pugliese, the percussionist. Just recently I received a request for a text on the relation between Zen Buddhism and my work. Rather than rewriting it now I am inserting it here in this story. I call it From Where’m’Now. It repeats some of what is above and some of what is below. WhenWhen I was young I was young and stilland writing still writing an unstructured an unstructured music, albeit music, methodical albeit methodical and not improvised, and not improvised, one of my teachers, one of my Adolph teachers, Weiss, used Adolph to complain Weiss,that used notosooner complain had Ithat started no sooner a piece than had II started brought it to a piece an end. than I introduced I broughtsilence. it to anI end. was aI ground, introduced so tosilence. speak, Iinwas which a emptiness ground,could so togrow. speak, in which emptiness could grow.
4’33” (his silent piece) followed structural harmony and white paintings using means of chance, demonstrated in the study of I Ching.
At college I had given up high school thoughts about devoting my life to religion. But after dropping out and travelling to Europe I became interested in modern music and painting, listening‑looking and making, finally devoting myself to writing music, which, twenty years later, becoming graphic, returned me now and then for visits to painting (prints, drawings, watercolors, the costumes and decors. It was at Black Mountain College that I made what is sometimes said to be the first happening. The audience was seated in four isometric triangular sections, the apexes of which touched a small square performance area that they faced and that led through the aisles between them to the large performance area that surrounded them. Disparate activities,
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dancing by Merce Cunningham, the exhibition of paintings and the playing of a Victrola by Robert Rauschenberg, the reading of his poetry by Charles Olsen or hers by M. C. Richards from the top of a ladder outside the audience, the piano playing of David Tudor, my own reading of a lecture that included silences from the top of another ladder outside the audience, all took place within chance‑determined periods of time within the over‑all time of my lecture. It was later that summer that I was delighted to find in America’s first synagogue in Newport, Rhode Island, that the congregation was seated in the same way, facing itself. From Rhode Island I went on to Cambridge and in the anechoic chamber at Harvard University heard that silence was not the absence of sound but was the unintended operation of my nervous system and the circulation of my blood. It was this experience and the white paintings of Rauschenberg that led me to compose 4’33”, which I had described in a lecture at Vassar College some years before when I was in the flush of my studies with Suzuki (A Composer’s Confessions, 1948), my silent piece. In the early fifties with David Tudor and Louis and Bebe Barron I made several works on magnetic tape, works by Christian Wolff, Morton Feldman, Earle Brown, and myself. Just as my notion of rhythmic structure followed Schoenberg’s structural harmony, and my silent piece followed Robert Rauschenberg’s white paintings, so my Music of Changes, composed by means of I Ching chance operations, followed Morton Feldman’s graph music, music written with numbers for any pitches, the pitches notated only as high, middle, or low. Not immediately, but a few years later, I was to move from structure to process, from music as an object having parts, to music without beginning, middle, or end, music as weather. In our collaborations Merce Cunningham’s choreographies are not supported by my musical accompaniments.
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Eleven or twelve years ago I began the Freeman Etudes for violin solo. As with the Etudes Australes for piano solo I wanted to make the music as difficult as possible so that a performance would show that the impossible is not impossible and to write thirty‑two of them. The notes written so far for the Etudes 17‑32 show, however, that there are too many notes to play. I have for years thought they would have to be synthesized, which I did not want to do. Therefore the work remains unfinished. Early last summer (‘88) Irvine Arditti played the first sixteen in fifty‑six minutes and then late in November the same pieces in forty‑six minutes. I asked why he played so fast. He said, “That’s what you say in the preface: play as fast as possible.” As a result I now know how to finish the Freeman Etudes, a work that I hope to accomplish this year or next. Where there are too many notes I will write the direction, “Play as many as possible.” Thinking of orchestra not just as musicians but as people I have made different translations of people to people in different pieces. In Etcetera to being with the orchestra as soloists, letting them volunteer their services from time to time to any one of three conductors. In Etcetera 2/4 Orchestras to begin with four conductors, letting orchestra members from time to time leave the group and play as soloists. In Atlas Eclipticalis and Concert for Piano and Orchestra the conductor is not a governing agent but a utility, providing the time. In Quartet no more than four musicians play at a time, with four constantly changing. Each musician is a soloist. To bring to orchestral society the devotion to music that characterizes chamber music. To build a society one by one. To bring chamber music to the size of orchestra. Music for ‑‑‑‑‑. So far I have written eighteen parts, any of which can be played together or omitted. Flexible time‑brackets. Variable structure. A music, so to speak, that’s earthquake proof. Another series without
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an underlying idea is the group that began with Two, continued with One, Five, Seven, Twenty‑three, 1O1, Four, Two2, One2, Three, Fourteen, and Seven2. For each of these works I look for something I haven’t yet found. My favourite music is the music I haven’t yet heard. I don’t hear the music I write. I write in order to hear the music I haven’t yet heard. We are living in a period in which many people have changed their mind about what the use of music is or could be for them. Something that doesn’t speak or talk like a human being, that doesn’t know its definition in the dictionary or its theory in the schools, that expresses itself simply by the fact of its vibrations. People paying attention to vibratory activity, not in reaction to a fixed ideal performance, but each time attentively to how it happens to be this time, not two times the same. A music that transports the listener to the moment where he is. Just the other day I received a request from Enzo Peruccio, a music editor in Torino. This is how I replied: Percussion I haveisbeen completely asked open. to write It isanot preface even open‑ended. for this book, It has which no is end. written It is not in like a language the strings, thatthe I do winds, not use the for brass reading. (I am thinking This preface of theisother therefore sections notoftothe the orchestra), book butthough to thewhen subject theyoffly the thebook, coop of percussion. harmony it can teach them a thing or two. If you are not hearing music, percussion is exemplified by the very next sound you actually hear wherever Percussion youis are, completely in or out open. of doors It isornot city.even Planet? open‑ended. It has no end. It is not like the strings, the winds, the brass (I am Take thinking any part of the of this other booksections and go to of the the end orchestra), of it. Youthough will findwhen yourself they fly thinking the coop of the of next harmony step to it can be taken teachinthem that direction. a thing or two. Perhaps If you you are will notneed hearing newmusic, materials, percussion new technologies. is exemplified You have by the them. veryYou next aresound in the you world actually of X, chaos, hear wherever the new science. you are, in or out of doors or city. Planet? The strings, the winds, the brass know more about music than they do about sound. To study noise they must go to the school of percussion. There they will discover silence, a way
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to change one’s mind; and aspects of time that have not yet been put into practice. European musical history began the study (the iso‑rhythmic motet) but it was put aside by the theory of harmony. Harmony through a percussion composer, Edgard Varèse, is being brought to a new open‑ended life by Tenney, James Tenney. I called him last December after hearing his new work in Miami and said “If this is harmony, I take back everything I’ve ever said; I’m all for it.” The spirit of percussion opens everything, even what was, so to speak, completely closed.1
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Response INITIAL THOUGHTS TOWARDS MAKING A CONNECTION TO HIM AND HIS WORK.
There is no doubt that Cage was a man of flamboyant ideas and controversial methods. When studying his work it can be seen that his involvement in music has redefined what could be considered music. 4’33� was an innovative attempt to shock an audience, and it worked. There is still a strong talking point over how an audience is supposed to engage with the silent performance. Like many others, I believe that the silence of the orchestra puts on the display the ambient sounds in the space that often go un-noticed.
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This book is a representation of a performance carried out in the month of December 2011 in Bristol. Consideration has been made towards John Cage and his influences. In particular, his 4’33’’ performance and Labanotation.
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Labanotation UNDERSTANDING AND RECORDING INFORMATION.
“Since the movement of a human body is inherently complex, Labanotation has had to be correspondingly complex. Partly as a result of this complexity, there have arisen some misconceptions about it over the years. It is tempting, for example, to imagine Labanotation as a fully rigorous description of body movement, so that the exact movements of a given person might be recorded using Labanotation as the data format, and then reproduced in animation software. But this is not the case. Like music notation, Labanotation doesn’t capture the nuances of a particular performance. It does capture the choreographer’s creative nuance, just as music notation captures the composer’s creative nuance.” 2 “The body category describes structural and physical characteristics of the human body while moving. This category of labanotation is responsible for describing which body parts are moving, which parts are connected, which parts are influenced by others, and general statements about body organization.
The category of space involves motion in connection with the environment, and with spatial patterns, pathways, and lines of spatial tension. Laban described a complex system of geometry based on crystalline forms, and the structure of the human body. There are ways of organizing and moving in space that were specifically harmonious, in the same sense as music can be harmonious. Some combinations and organizations were more theoretically and aesthetically pleasing. As with music, Space Harmony sometimes takes the form of set ‘scales’ of movement within geometric forms. These scales can be practised in order to refine the range of movement and reveal individual movement preferences. The abstract and theoretical depth of this part of the system is often considered to be much greater than the rest of the system. In practical terms, there is much of the Space category that does not specifically contribute to the ideas of Space Harmony.”3
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Labanotation RESPONSE.
Labanotation has been a consideration and research area for my performance. Laban’s conceptual thought, for interpreting, describing, visualising and notating all ways of human movement, has aided me through my development process. Response to this performance is shown by the interest from passers by. Reaction and body language play a significant part in my piece. Whether a person has acknowledged or ignored my piece; anybody’s reaction or non-reaction plays a significant part in the performance.
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Tim Crouch PRODUCING A PERFORMACE INVOLVING MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC.
Crouch’s play, The Author has been a strong focal point for my interaction with an audience. Tim Crouch is a UK theatre artist based in Brighton. He writes plays, performs in them and takes responsibility for their production. He started to make his own work in 2003. Before then he was an actor. Tim works with a number of associates and collaborators to produce his writing. There isn’t a company structure; things and people are brought together when they are needed. The process has always been a text written by Crouch. Early work was made in response to a self-generated impulse to tell a story or explore a form. This impulse is still the first motivation but, lately, it’s become slightly more formalized through the involvement of various commissioning theatres and organizations.4 The play tells the story of another play: a violent, shocking and abusive play performed at the Royal Court Jerwood Theatre. The Author charts the effect that play had on the two actors who acted in it, the playwright who wrote it and an audience member who watched it. It also draws links to the broader world in which such a play could be written and presented a world saturated by images of violence and governed by the media-distorted need for impact. It also examines the consequences of this mediated need in both art and the everyday. The Author is a play about what it is to be a spectator and about our responsibilities as spectators. It explores the connection between what we see and what we do. I feel strongly that we have lost a thread of responsibility for what we choose to look at. The Author uses only words to show us things and sometimes the things those words show us are disturbing. 5
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Crouch’s approach to creating a performance to surprise an audience and make them question their connection with what they see in front of them has progressed my ideas and understanding towards connecting with my performers. I have observed Crouch's work and taken into account his idea of what it is to be a spectator and performer and the choice that is involved in these roles when the option is given. Rather than planning a performance I have created an opportunity for the performer, which allows anyone to make decisions on their involvement with my project.
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VISUAL REACTION. INTERPRETATION OF AN UNEXPECTED EVENT.
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Response APPLYING A CONCEPT.
Consideration has been made towards the structure and concept of John Cage’s performance of 3’44’’. Three significant movements are made during the performance of his piece. The piece’s conception is based on the result of what can be heard in the environment that the listeners can hear while it’s being performed, creating a sense of removal. The artist has created, what is initially seen as a silent performance, and the composer is removed from their expected requirement of composing a piece of music. On this Basis, John Cage has lost all control of his audience, and it is the unexpected chance of happenings, which essentially control the piece. For my performance I have interpreted John Cage’s 4’33’’. I learnt from his performance piece and adapted certain characteristics. Through further research such as Labanotation and Tim Crouch's play work I have combined and developed characteristics to create something new, reflecting my take on performance art work. John Cage’s piece has lots of emphasis on the sound created from an audience rather than the audience. I have based my performance and its focus around visual reaction. By creating visual art in a public environment, my intention was to surprise and interact with my audience. Thus generating a performance based on unexpected reactions from the view of a spectator.
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Experimenting with my projection delivery played a significant part in the end success. Revisiting my location and playing with new ideas of what I had learnt about my environment, was key in creating a successful outcome.
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THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS AN EMPTY SPACE OR AN EMPTY TIME. THERE IS ALWAYS SOMETHING TO SEE, SOMETHING TO HEAR. IN FACT, TRY WE MAY TO MAKE A SILENCE, WE CANNOT.
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THANK-YOU FOR PERFORMING BETWEEN THESE LINES.
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PEOPLE STOPPED AND STARRED BUT THE MESSAGE WAS HIDDEN. I NEEDED A REACTION. I experimented with projecting direct quotes from John Cage onto the pavement. My initial reaction towards the brief was to connect the audience directly with Cage himself. While this was a nice idea and successful in the sense that people would stop and inspect the lit up pavement, it became obvious that interaction between the projection and spectator was limited. A commandment of action was needed in order to create awareness for the spectator to make a decision whether they wanted to interact with the projection or not.
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Unexpcted reaction.
The human movement and reaction, surrounding the projection created interesting and unexpected patterns of behaviour. This was a challenging feature of the performance to communicate. The white thread on this page represents the mass of people who were involved in the piece. The black thread represents the involvement of the people who reacted to the light projection and performed.
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My performance piece consisted of a projector, laptop and a video camera. I set the projector up on a window ledge out of a second story flat, which projected onto the street bellow. I had to make use of any materials at hand. A stool was used to play the laptop on. I had to find a way to keep the projector in a fixed position, pointing down at the ground. A mop pole was wedged between the cupboard, attached to it, several lengths of material which was then secured to the projector, allowing it to be angled over the window ledge. The camera was then attached to a tripod that reached over the ledge to record activity down bellow.
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The set up took place in a fixed location on a regular basis at night time. This gave me room to experiment and observe day to day patterns of human life.
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THE FINAL VIDEO PIECE IS A REPRESEN WHILE THE CONCEPT WAS ALWAYS C VARIATION IN PROJECTIONS CHANGED TH I ALSO EXPERIMENTED WITH DIFFERENT TI THE PROJECTION. DIFFEvRENT SHOTS WER ONE AT A WIDE ANGLE, ONE CROPPED TO GROUND
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T My gradual analysis over time has allowed me to study patterns, enabling me to edit my video, giving a stronger impact. This organisation has given me the freedom to be specific with footage I have built the video with. In the video piece I wanted to create a build up of excitement and gradually engage the viewer. By using a cropped shot with no music for the first part, I intended to create a sense of unknown. The music cues the different edits of the people who engaged with the projection. This task has been an exciting process. In reflection, I feel I have been creative with my approach towards what can be perceived as a ‘performance’. The unpredictable prospects of applying a vague command to the willing public has been interesting, with successful outcomes. My projected type of ‘Thankyou for performing between these lines’ was the finalised communication technique that worked best towards drawing in the performers who made the performance happen.
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BIBLIOGRAPHY:
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Cage, J. (1990) Autobiographical Statement [Online] Found At: Http://Johncage.Org/Autobiographical_statement.Html
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Labanotation Cleary Explained [Online] Found At: Http://Www.Labanotation.Net/
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Labanotation Detail [Online] Found At: Http://En.Wikipedia.Org/Wiki/Laban_movement_analysis
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Tim Crouch Theatre [Online] Found At: Http://Www.Timcrouchtheatre.Co.Uk/About/About-TheCompany
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Interview With Time Crouch [Online] Found At: Http://Www.Newsfromnowhere.Net/Shows/The-Author/TheAuthor.Html
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